2019-05-01_Discover

MAY 2019. DISCOVER 41 “We found that in all the female mice that were exposed to spaceflight from 12 to 15 days, the corpora lut ...

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MAY 2019. DISCOVER 43 BY DEVIN POWELL Worlds aligned in 1919 — and forever changed how we understand gravity. AD DIT ION AL EL E ...

44 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, Albert Einstein wasn’t a household name. He was a professor in Berlin, known to sci ...

MAY 2019. DISCOVER 45 in 1914. His team arrived, armed with telescopes and cameras and glass photographic plates, just as war br ...

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CR ED IT MAY 2019. DISCOVER 47 Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate One thing at least is certain, LIGHT has WEIGHT, One th ...

48 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM General relativity grew out of Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which describes how the speed of ...

MAY 2019. DISCOVER 49 Einstein’s Peculiar Predictions Relativity makes numerous bizarre predictions, many of them experimentally ...

C.^ HE NZ E/N AS A 50 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM 100 19 19 -^2 0 19 years of relativity Ripple effect Spotting them was merely the fir ...

MAY 2019. DISCOVER 51 IN FEBRUARY 2016, ALBERT EINSTEIN made history, again. That’s when physicists announced they’d finally obs ...

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MAY 2019. DISCOVER 53 Strange Matter In Cat’s Cradle, novelist Kurt Vonnegut imagined a new form of crystallized water called “i ...

NA TIO NA L^ A ST RO NO MIC AL^ OB SER VAT OR Y^ O F^ JA PA N Extra Dimensions We’re all familiar with the four dimensions of Ei ...

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INS ET: AL ISO N^ M AC KE Y/D ISC OV ER 56 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM Event Horizons One of the best-known features of black holes is ...

WO RM HO LE: IN TER IOR DE SIG N/ SH UT TER STO CK MAY 2019. DISCOVER 57 Wormholes In 1916, one year after Einstein presented th ...

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MAY 2019. DISCOVER 59 KF IFA /SH UT TER STO CK Ta l k to Me BY JAMES VLAHOS ...

60 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM VIS UA L^ G EN ER ATI ON /SH UT TER STO CK (^2 ) “Tell me about yourself,” I say to the Microsoft AI. “W ...